Sentences with phrase «cultural material from»

He has also created works, which juxtapose cultural material from different international communities such as the Japanese American and Nipo - Brasiliero communities.

The cultural material from a predominantly print - literate (i.e. sight - oriented) culture such as Western Europe and North America will not be meaningful In the same terms to peoples in a predominantly oral culture (sound - oriented such as in Africa and Asia) and the converse is true as well.

Paris, Washington D.C. — The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and 32 partner institutions today launched the World Digital Library, a website that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives from around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, sound recordings, prints and photographs.

Not exact matches

For example, in the U.K. over 5,000 companies have benefited from «The Export Communications Review» and «Postgraduates for International Business» programs that help them adapt their marketing materials and websites to both the language and cultural nuances of the foreign consumers they are targeting.

Indeed, its cultural significance warrants giving it a position in Christological discussion equal to that accorded to at least some of the material from the Jewish background in the analysis of the genesis and development of early Christian ideas about Jesus.

The dominant interpretation, derived from Franco - German scholarship of the nineteenth century, emphasized material aspects: political contest and domination in the Near East; the social structures of the Levantine crusader principalities viewed, especially by Francophone scholars, through the lens of modern colonialism; cultural confrontation and exchange through settlement and trade, a topos made familiar by eighteenth - century Enlightenment writers seeking to integrate the Crusades into a narrative of European progress; military adventurism that exposed the mentality of crusaders — heroic, passionate, devout, or misguided according to taste.

Scientific realism thus presupposes an investigating mind that has some degree of independence from the grip of material or cultural causation.

Their competition may stem from their having different organizational locations, different interests, or different cultural materials with which to work.

In general, the cynical leaders of the backlash» as distinguished from the true believers at the grass roots who really do care about issues like abortion, religion, homosexual marriage, and the rest» are often moderate cultural modernists themselves, but they are perfectly happy to reap the benefits that accrue to them from red - state Americans losing sight of the material issues that ought to dominate their political imaginations.

Their «criminally stupid strategy» of removing central economic distinctions from the table has made them easy prey for their enemies: «[B] y dropping the class language that once distinguished them sharply from Republicans they have left themselves vulnerable to cultural wedge issues like guns and abortion and the rest whose hallucinatory appeal would ordinarily be far overshadowed by material concerns.»

Removed from the statute book is the rejection of «teaching and materials which are inappropriate, having regard to the age and the religious and cultural background of the pupils concerned».

• young people are protected from teaching and materials which are inappropriate, having regard to the age and the religious and cultural background of the pupils concerned

In fact, seen from the broader cultural context, Jesus can be described as a Reformer of patriarchal society.63 It is worthy to quote from Witherington that, «taking all the probably authentic material in the gospels together, it would appear that Jesus was a reformer of patriarchal society.

Amy Tay, Tiger Brand Director, Five Points Trading Company commented, «Dawn's artwork, formed from a curated selection of cultural symbols such as lanterns, firecrackers, blossoms and oranges, comes to life on Tiger packaging and promotional materials this season.

Ahmed worked in the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs as Director of Material Donations for the Materials for the Arts program from 2007 to 2011.

«Conducting formal readability testing, as suggested by the study authors, along with use of patient reviewers from a variety of educational and cultural backgrounds may provide important feedback to enhance the value of materials across a larger spectrum of health literacy levels.»

«The most distinct of the many cultural innovations in the HP culture were the invention of the bow and arrow, different methods of heating raw materials (stone) before knapping to produce arrow heads, engraving ostrich eggshells with elaborate patterns, intensive use of hearths and relatively intense hunting and gathering practices,» says Professor Christopher Henshilwood, one of the team members from Wits and Bergen Universities.

«What they need from their international colleagues is some help to do that — training, materials, and other support in the international arena for the notion that it is possible to mitigate and prevent damage to cultural heritage, even in the midst of conflicts.»

Bucklow believes that our modern - day appreciation of cultural artefacts — such as mobile phones — is completely divorced from our understanding of the materials that go into their making.

Bamboo has a long history of economic and cultural significance, primarily in East Asia and South East Asia where it has been used for centuries for everything from building material to food to medicine.

The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone: (a) To take part in cultural life; (b) To enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications; (c) To benefit from the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.»

The intensely bright light produced at the ESRF offers scientists unique opportunities to explore materials and living matter in a multitude of fields, ranging from chemistry and materials physics to archaeology and cultural heritage and from structural biology, health and life sciences to environmental sciences, information science and nanotechnologies.

So whether we're looking at modernizing a traditional African pattern, or creating a print that reflects African - American life as our Brooklyn Life pillows do, every design begins from a cultural standpoint, and then the modern layers come in with color and materials.

Between those who read, who, through books, through developing an enjoyment of literature, can have the opportunity to access the considerable cultural and material benefits of our society - and those who were made to feel very early on that the world of words, of books, of stories, of ideas, was not for them, that they were not clever enough to join that world, that it was not the world they belonged to, that it was shut off from them forever.»

What are some of the curriculum materials that PTP teachers used that described historical, social, and political events from a wide range of racial, ethnic, cultural, and language perspectives?

Do I teach from an anti-biased perspective and do the curriculum materials present contributions and perspectives of different cultural groups in society and the world, in terms of ethnicity, language, gender, socio economics and / or disability?

Murphy draws material from primary sources, such as private diaries, newspapers, and books, to give insight into the political, social, and cultural challenges of the yellow fever epidemic.

John R. Johnson (curator 1986 - present) has built a good comparative faunal collection, and the department serves as a repository for curation of archaeological material from Channel Islands National Park, Los Padres National Forest, and various cultural resource management projects.

While Lenin was relatively accepting towards writers and other artists who strayed from explicit or even implicit communist material, Stalin was... well, Stalin, and socialist realism dominated the cultural landscape for over forty years.

Brischler's source material is culled from a wide swath of cultural references including book covers, vintage film posters, ephemera from long - out - of - print queer publications, and digital imagery in the age of social media.

Both bodies of work highlight the poignant conjunctions between image and text in these found cultural artifacts, culling material from two very different books that each appear to be one thing but end up revealing quite another.

From 1973 to 1974 Halley lived in New Orleans, where he absorbed the vibrant cultural influences of the city, began using commercial materials in his art, and first became acquainted with the writings of earthwork artist Robert Smithson.

After one year in the space they shut down operations, and from 1981 until they ceased activities in 1996, Group Material constituted a flexible membership of three to five artists who organized projects in the public sphere — function as a medium for collective cultural production and public address.

The artists use as points of departure a wide spectrum of inspiration from personal, archival material to cultural myth and memory, both real and imagined.

Our programs are made possible with funds from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New Music USA's NYC New Music Impact Fund made possible by the Scherman Foundation's Katharine S and Axel G Rosin Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Materials for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, the Edwards Foundation Arts Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Friends of Harvestworks.

In the series The Book of Changes Kha produces imaginary landscapes that trace aspects of her own cultural heritage using sourced material from the collections of Chinese porcelains at the British Museum.

He often brings together evolving traditions with present - day concerns through a mix of cultural references and materials, from robotic constructions and found objects (work boots and sewing machines) to organic materials (seeds, soil, and feathers).

Drawing equally from lifestyle magazines and life experience, Martin Mull cleverly appropriates visual material from both; his paintings function against the framework of flickering collective memory and within the cultural unrest and individual discontent of the present.

These materials bear testament to the themes and discussions that the New Museum has consistently pursued, from issues of gender and sexuality to the relationship between art and technology, as well as the mandates that have characterized its institutional practice: responsiveness to cultural crises, championing new forms of art making, and the belief in art as a social force.

Drawing inspiration from the radically confrontational Viennese Actionists and the Happenings of Allan Kaprow and others, McCarthy quickly strayed away from his initial interest in painting and in the 1970s began composing performances with the goal of physically disrupting the sense of material comfort, general apathy, and violent cultural dissolution that he viewed as the results of the United States» consumerist, entertainment - driven mass media and popular culture.

Exhibiting internationally since the early 1990s, Suzanne McClelland's practice includes both large - scale paintings and works on paper, often extracting fragments of speech or text from various political and cultural sources and exploring the symbolic and material possibilities that reside within language.

The Typhoon Continues and So Do You is supported, in part, by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Materials for the Arts; and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties.

Stacy Isenbarger: Detached from expected presentations, my work is empowered by cultural associations to materials, language, and iconography.

Looking back over Rauschenberg's career from its beginnings around the middle of the last century through his death in 2008, as the current retrospective of his work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (on view through September 17) invites us to do, it becomes clear that Rauschenberg was above all a restless and resourceful gatherer of materials, cultural as well as physical.

Each of Hiller's works is based on specific cultural artefacts from our society, which she uses as basic materials.

Her practice includes both large - scale paintings and works on paper, often extracting fragments of speech or text from various political and cultural sources and exploring the symbolic and material possibilities that reside within language.

«Composed from the media, detritus, and organic matter of Brooklyn, Tehran, and many places in between, Dehghan's collages exhibit an impetus to dissect - physically, theoretically, and psychologically — a select collection of extant materials in order to provide a channel through which the sociopolitical, cultural, and mimetic forces that produced them may be projected outward through their own destruction, reconstruction, and reconfiguration.

Covering many subjects and countries, from war to human rights issues and from cultural identity to the sex industry, Meiselas uses photography, film, video and sometimes archive material, as she relentlessly explores and develops narratives integrating the participation of her subjects in her works.

The first part of the exhibition From a Poem to the Sunset is devoted to conceptual approaches concerned both with the significance of artistic traditions and with the collision of divergent cultural, media and material worlds.

Congress of Collectives is supported, in part, by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Materials for the Arts; and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties.